Martha Stewart, the wealthy entrepreneur whose corporate and personal worlds were rocked last year by a felony conviction, was heading home early today after spending five months at the minimum-security federal women’s prison in Alderson, W.Va.

Ms. Stewart left the prison in a small convoy of vehicles around 12:30 a.m., emerging from a black sport utility vehicle a half-hour later at the Greenbrier Valley Airport. Clad in jeans, high-heeled boots and a floppy gray-knit poncho over a green long-sleeved top, she briskly strode the few yards across the tarmac to a waiting private jet, accompanied by her daughter, Alexis Stewart.

Martha Stewart, the wealthy entrepreneur whose corporate and personal worlds were rocked last year by a felony conviction, was heading home early today after spending five months at the minimum-security federal women’s prison in Alderson, W.Va.

Ms. Stewart left the prison in a small convoy of vehicles around 12:30 a.m., emerging from a black sport utility vehicle a half-hour later at the Greenbrier Valley Airport. Clad in jeans, high-heeled boots and a floppy gray-knit poncho over a green long-sleeved top, she briskly strode the few yards across the tarmac to a waiting private jet, accompanied by her daughter, Alexis Stewart.

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It's true that she got a cream puff treatment (how does one arrange that?!?) but she never should've been thrown in prison in the first place.

Found this article below. Goes to show justice isn't blind: one set of laws for the rich, and another for the rest of us.

I just have to disagree with you about her (I know there are other cases where this is more apparent). She was convicted of lying about a "crime" of which she was never tried or convicted...this makes no sense to me.

For example, a policeman asks you if you robbed a bank. You say "no". You are later convicted not of robbing the bank, but of having said no when asked...it is the government's job to prove guilt, not ours to profess it. It's innocent until proven guilty...so if they didn't have enough evidence to convict her of the original crime, how can they then convict her of lying about it. It's insane to me.

Let me see, Martha goes to jail for perhaps lying about a crime that she was never convicted or tried for....Malvo who shot a dozen folks in the head gets to play basketball and eat three squares a day because he was 17 instead of 18 when he and his homosexual partner went on their shooting spree.

I'd say that the law was applied more strictly in Martha's case. I think she's great.

Geez, on SF too?! I think she is a horrible human being. She treats people horribly. Isn't her mother Jewish and Martha a Non Practicing 'person'? I honestly can't remember. I think it was mentioned on Larry King. She would not discuss her spirituality. She is one of those people I go out of my way to not support with a nickle. I will be silent now...I really don't like the old phoney broad at all.

You know, if she'd got a black eye and a couple of teeth knocked out in a fistfight while "behind bars", I'd feel justice was done. She was guiltier'n'hell.

Now this doesn't mean there aren't much bigger crooks out there, who brazenly flout the law with impunity (pals of Bush, or scoundrels like Marc Rich who bribed Clinton into granting him a presidential pardon). They probably put Martha behind just to show us poor suckers: see, justice is done!